Sport: On to Louisville

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was asked to compare Native Dancer with "the other good horses" he has owned. Vanderbilt answered briefly, with an all-sufficient distinction : "Native Dancer is the first great horse I've ever owned." Most of the 40,000 racing fans at Jamaica Race Track one day last week shared Owner Vanderbilt's conviction. Coupled with his stablemate, Social Outcast, the unbeaten Dancer was a 1-10 favorite to win the $100,000 Wood Memorial at a mile and an eighth, the longest race he had ever been called upon to run.

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